Definitions for minuses

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minuses mi·nus

Spelling: [mahy-nuh s]

IPA: /ˈmaɪ nəs/

Minuses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in minuses (eimnssu).

Definitions for minuses

noun

1. minus sign.
2. a minus quantity.
3. a deficiency or loss.
4. Informal. a person or thing with no apparent abilities, usefulness, etc.:

adjective

1. involving or noting subtraction.
2. algebraically negative:
3. less than; just below in quality:
4. Informal. having negative qualities or characteristics; inferior.
5. Mycology. (in heterothallic fungi) designating, in the absence of morphological differentiation, one of the two strains of mycelia that unite in the sexual process.

preposition

1. less by the subtraction of; decreased by:
2. lacking or without:

Origin of minuses

1300-50; Middle English Latin, neuter of minor less; see minor

Examples for minuses

Life must be studied not from the pluses alone, but from the minuses too.

Howard Kurtz on the pluses and minuses of potential Mitt running mates after his decisive win in New Hampshire.

Only the most expert examiner should limit his record to pluses and minuses.

Peace cannot be reached by the simple addition of pluses and elimination of minuses from life.

"I don't sit around calculating the political pluses and minuses of every word I utter," Daniels said.

For the majority of the art world, the pluses for using apps continue to far outweigh the minuses.

So Silicon Valley is destined to become a technological metropolis and there are pluses and minuses to that.